Hard lessons
Subtitle: public schools and privatization
By: Carol Ascher, Norm Fruchter, Robert Berne
Contributors: Berne, Robert; Fruchter, Norm, 1937-
Publisher: Twentieth Century Fund Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780870783999
Subjects: Privatization in education; Öffentliche Schule; Privatisierung; School choice; Educational vouchers; Privatisation en éducation; Choix; Écoles; Bons scolaires
Notes: "Twentieth Century Fund report."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-133) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Richard C. Leone; title: 1. Our Besieged Public Schools and Why They Are Public; title: 2. Promises of Privatization; title: 3. Two Forgotten Experiments in School Privatization: Performance Contracting and Educational Vouchers; title: 4. Privatization in Baltimore, 1992-95; title: 5. Experimenting With Privatization; title: 6. Public Education in Transition; title: 7. The Limits of Privatization and the Continuing Struggle for Equity.